[ Thanks to Jacek
Nowak for this link. ]
It is called the Slashdot effect. When a Web site is mentioned
(and linked to) by the popular Web-based news site, slashdot.org,
that site is usually brought to its knees. Everyone from Forbes
magazine to The New York Times has been a victim of the effect; a
Slashdot link acts like an open sluice gate for over-eager surfers
to bombard your site. The latest example? Corel Corp.”
“With Corel’s share price now rebounding, you might think things
are on the mend at the edge-of-disaster software company. They’re
not. Instead, Ottawa-based Corel is up to its usual tricks, with
chairman Mike Cowpland bobbing, weaving and generally doing
whatever he can to convince shareholders that the moribund software
company is anything but. And he has found new fools to separate
from their money at Slashdot.”
“What is Slashdot? The Web site is a tree house for techies, a
place where enthusiasts fulminate all day, every day about all
things computer-related. They’re mostly interested in so-called
“open source” software: in a nutshell, free software from anyone
but Microsoft…“